(Marks) The writer makes this generalization in the
I have interpreted these lines in one way, yet there are a million different possibilities. The author puts the words onto the paper, but the reader’s job is to interpret their own emotion, memory or belief and actually apply it to the poet’s words in order to create an
The speaker struggled with the swamp. Oliver expresses this with the use of strong diction and full imagery. Powerful dark words are used, and the swamps omnipotent grasp is felt. Through the use of structure and enjambment the intensity and pace builds to the end where a hope is exposed
He could imagine his deception of this town “nestled in a paper landscape,” (Collins 534). This image of the speaker shows the first sign of his delusional ideas of the people in his town. Collins create a connection between the speaker’s teacher teaching life and retired life in lines five and six of the poem. These connections are “ chalk dust flurrying down in winter, nights dark as a blackboard,” which compares images that the readers can picture.
In the second paragraph, he uses words such as dreaded, delivered, devoted, destroy, dissolve, and divide to draw the
Elizabeth Wyckoff concisely translates the text to give an understandable and straightforward interpretation of the literature. She utilizes complex sentences and well-put run-ons to develop multiple ideas through her paragraphs, which are reinforced, clarified, and tied together with simple sentences. She builds into these ideas as the section develops: “Language, and thought like the wind and the feelings that make the town, he has taught himself, and shelter against the cold, refuge from rain. He can always help himself.” Using a run-on sentence she pushes her ideas with examples that are compelling and related to the idea of helping yourself in order to convey her message.
As we can see in the case of the narrator in the “Roast Possum”, he points out how the possum plays dead in order to gain an opportunity of surviving. Hughes poem “Theme for English b” softly commends on racial tension. The poet expresses the isolation felt by a student. The professor, had to in turn prove to him on his paper, stating how there are things we can learn a thing or two from one another. Circumstances such as these create an awkward situation that forces changes on the party involved.
Individuals can make their own interpretation of the themes of the short story, but without the grotesque violence and psychopathic nature of the characters, a theme would never surface. The purpose of the violent scenes and nature of the story is to provide a theme for the audience that a good man is not just hard to find but impossible to find because everyone is an imperfect human by human
When it covers them, in this case, the bodies from brutal battlefields, people soon forget. Since they forget what happened there, they are bound to make the same mistakes again, as the poem concludes from listing five different battles, at different time periods, all with the same cost: hundreds, if not thousands, of lives taken. Using personification, imagery, and the Romanticism literary trend, this poem elegantly shows the reader the dark side of covering one’s mistakes. The personification of the grass allows the readers to see the problems with covering up one’s errors in a new light. The personification of the grass, allowing it to speak, is an intriguing concept that Carl Sandburg, the author, uses effectively.
One of the main things catches the reader’s attention is how they the man from Ironbark reacted to the joke played on him. This poem was chosen because of its lively and enjoyable rhythm. This makes the reader feel a mixture of feelings such as anger when the barber pulls the joke, but humour from the reaction of the man from Ironbark finds out it was actually a joke. Overall it was a very enjoyable and
So on we worked, and waited for the light, and went without the meat, and cursed the bread; and Richard Cory, one summer night, went home and put a bullet through his head (Robinson 662).” Through this poem, Arlington used rhyme scheme and irony to prove the point that what the townspeople could see wasn’t as it seemed. As readers read along the stanzas of the poem, they would probably think “hmmm… this Richard Cory seems to be having a happy life”. Ironically, it seemed that Richard Cory wasn’t living a happy life which is why “he put a bullet through his head.” Overall,this poem as a whole shows how Edwin Arlington Robinson used irony and rhyme scheme to his advantage throughout the poem by using Richard Cory to shock the townspeople and
The author composed the poem in such a way that it is dulcet to read. The message within the poem is evident because of the Metaphors of nature and the destruction of mankind. Andrew
For instance in the very start of his essay he begins by describing the day. He begins by saying, “a sodden morning of the rains. A sickly light, like yellow tinfoil, I was slanting over the high walls into the jail yard.” When you read that passage you get a depressed tone out of it, and what tops it off is that when the weather is like this coincidently someone is going to get hanged. He also shows us again what the tone of his essay is when he sees the prisoner step out of the way of a puddle while he is being led to where he is going to get hanged.
In his poem “Out, Out”, Robert Frost introduces his readers to a boy who was forced to leave his childhood behind in order to begin work and help his family. We are able to see, although the boy was forced to mature faster than most young men of his age, that he still had a child-like innocence. This innocence is what Frost wanted to portray to the readers as he uses personification and irony to reveal the tragedy of an irreproachable boy’s death and the impact that it made. In the opening lines, the narrator of Frost’s poem sets the scene and leads the reader into the environment of the poem.
Throughout the story, three major details of the narrator’s psyche are confirmed. First, we learned of the narrator’s deceitfulness. Every morning he lies to the old man with the least bit of guilt. The next continues to prove the madness as the narrator feels utter joy from the terror of another. Lastly, the narrator fabricates that the old man is simply not home to assure the officers.
